DuPage County judge to consider Arnold Roberts' future treatment

DUPAGE COUNTY — A former Glenbard East High School student sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting four Lombard women in the late 1990s was declared a sexually violent person Monday.

Arnold Roberts, 26, was 14 when he committed the crimes against the victims, ranging from age 23 to 62, during 10 months in 1996 and 1997. He was charged as an adult and sentenced to prison in 2001 after pleading guilty to aggravated criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual abuse, attempted criminal sexual abuse and battery.

Before Roberts was to be released on parole in February 2006, the Illinois attorney general's office filed a civil lawsuit contending that he remained a danger to society and should remain incarcerated.